The Dry review: Raise a glass for a fun tale of a recovering alcoholic
Roisin Gallagher as Shiv Sheridan in The Dry, on RTÉ One.
Full disclosure: having auditioned and failed to get a part for The Dry, I was determined to hate it. Sadly, much like the fifth Beatle or Matthew Perry’s mate who turned down the part of Chandler Bing, I will have to live in the knowledge that this was the one that got away. This is a show which is - as much as it pains me to say it - very, very good.
Shiv is a recovering alcoholic returning home from London to attend her granny’s wake. She proudly says she is five months, 17 days, and 6 hours sober: a statement her family greet with equal amounts bemusement and, in the case of Shiv’s sister Caroline, an audible eye-roll.
